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Tue, 31 Mar 2015 22:05:39 +0000enhourly1“The Killing’s” breakout character is a butch teenage girlhttp://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/the_killings_breakout_character_is_a_butch_teenage_girl/
http://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/the_killings_breakout_character_is_a_butch_teenage_girl/#commentsMon, 01 Jul 2013 15:54:00 +0000WillaPaskinhttp://www.salon.com/?p=13347199AMC’s “The Killing” is halfway through its third season, and so improved that I find myself in the unfamiliar position of wanting to give it a compliment. (It’s not so improved that I only want to give it compliments: On last night’s episode, detective Sarah Linden made a major breakthrough in a case she had worked three years ago— a case she had cared so deeply about it had driven her crazy, but one in which she'd apparently neglected to identify the one eyewitness.) This season’s case has detectives Linden and Holder trying to catch a serial killer who preys on street girls and has already sliced the throats of more than a dozen of them. This crime has given “The Killing” entrée into the lives of Seattle street kids, homeless teenagers and runaways who are moving from shelter to squat, but are not — and this is the great part — just trying to survive, they are also navigating the robust social world they have created for themselves. These kids have lives, feelings, generous and selfish instincts, an entire social web. They are not just cautionary tales, though they are that too. Their world is bleak, but it’s not just bleak.